Saint Joseph Catholic Church

The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, also known as the Trappists, was founded at La Trappe in 1664 by Abbot Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé.

Bishop Luis Marín de San Martín, O.S.A., was appointed an undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in 2021. In appointing Bishop San Martín a curial prefect, Pope Leo also raised him to the dignity of an archbishop.

Bishop San Martín succeeds Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, Almoner of His Holiness since 2013 and prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Charity since its inception in 2022. Pope Leo named Cardinal Krajewski the new archbishop of Łódź, Poland; Cardinal Krajewski was born in Łódź in 1963 and ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Łódź in 1988.

The organization “took its first steps in Spain in the 1950s but was officially founded in 1968 and is today present in nearly 100 countries worldwide,” the Vatican newspaper reported.

The conference was organized by Fraterna Domus, an association of Christian volunteers. Pope Leo said:

Being present in the lives of others means sharing time, experiences and meanings, offering stable points of reference in which others can recognize themselves and grow. Looking to the Holy Family of Nazareth—whose model inspires Fraterna Domus—every welcoming community can rediscover its calling and learn to orient itself on the path of service.

The Pontiff also upheld St. Joseph’s guardianship of those entrusted to him as a model of care.

“Guardianship means being attentive to others, respecting their choices and caring for them,” he said. “Joseph shows us that presence and guardianship are inseparable dimensions: it is not possible to guard without being present, and one is not present without assuming responsibility for the other.”

Archbishop Michel Jalakh, O.A.M., issued an appeal “not to close our eyes to the suffering” of Lebanon and “not to think that it is far removed from us: we must always continue, at the very least, to speak about it.”

The prelate lamented a recent Israeli attack on Beirut: an “attack against peaceful people who were more than just displaced: they had gone to sleep on the beach, and there they were killed.”

Archbishop Jalakh described conditions in Lebanon as “terrible” and the nation as paralyzed, as “monasteries, universities, and other centers” are filled with people displaced in the war there.

The Vatican newspaper lamented the Iran war’s child casualties and decried the humanitarian effects of the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon.

Archbishop Jajou is the senior member (by date of episcopal ordination) of the Permanent Synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The prelate’s appointment, the Chaldean Patriarchate stated, was made in accord with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (n. 127).

On March 10, Pope Leo XIV accepted the resignation of Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako, 76, the Eastern Catholic church’s Patriarch since 2013.